A VOYAGE I' O 
fervice which is not \incommonly perf(.)rmed by them, 
the men being chieliy occupied in making canoes, fpears, 
fidi-gigs, and the other articles that confti'aUe their 
fmall ftock of neceffary implements. Two women were 
here obferved to be fcarred on tlie llioulders Uke the 
men ; this was the firR inftance in which they had been 
feen fo marked. 
The failors who w^aited on the beach to take care of 
the boat faw about two hundred men aiTembled in two 
parties, who after fome time drew themfelves up on 
oppofite fides, and from each party men advanced fingly 
and threw their fpears, guarding themfelves at the fame 
time with their fliieids. This feemed at firft to be 
merely a kind of exercife, for the women belonging to 
both parties remained together on the beach ; afterw^ards 
it had a more ferious afped:, and the women are faid to 
have run up and down in great agitation uttering violent 
flirieks. But it was not perceived that any men were 
kUled. ; ^ , 
As it had been fuppofed that many of the natives 
had left this part of the coaft, on account of the great 
fcarcity of filh-, the different coves of the harbour were 
examined in one day. At this time, not more than iixty- 
feven canoes were counted, and about one hundred and 
thirty of the people w-ere feen. But it was the feafon 
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